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Peterlee

Polluted by sewage 160 times in 2025 lasting 507 hours

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Totals for Peterlee in 2025

8 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
160 sewage dumps
507 hours duration
That's 3.02 weeks. 3.1 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Peterlee in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this place all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Gore Burn THROSTLES NEST PUMPING STATION 32 134 100
Northumbrian Water Calfpasture Burn SHOTTON LANE CSO 37 131 99.4
Northumbrian Water North Sea HORDEN STW 27 89 98.05
Northumbrian Water Horden Burn PARADISE FARM CSO 32 71 77.4
Northumbrian Water Gore Burn THROSTLES NEST STORAGE TANK 8 43 99.9
Northumbrian Water Castle Eden Burn WELLFIELD PS 14 25 100
Northumbrian Water Blackhills Gill BLACKHILLS FARM CSO 6 10 98.7
Northumbrian Water Blackhills Gill SOUTH EAST VIEW CSO 4 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water Blackhills Gill COTSFORD JUNIOR SCHOOL CSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Castle Eden Burn DENE HOLME SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 83.5
Northumbrian Water Blackhills Gill REAR OF THIRD STREET CSO 0 0 94.6

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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